By designing the shape of the original surface curve(sine-wave and square-wave),macroscopic domains with different dislocation density were introduced into the TiNi alloys and materials were endued with the characteristics of composites. Dilatometer(DL) and the differential scanning calorimeter(DSC) were used to study the properties of in-situ composites of TiNi alloys. The results show that the reverse transformation temperature range of in-situ TiNi composites with sine-wave surface is significantly enlarged. However,two endothermic peaks appear on DSC curves in the first heating process for these samples with square-wave surface. It is presumed that the interactions between the dislocation texture and martensite variants introduced when the TiNi martensite is cold rolled at room temperature might be responsible to the phenomena,which are compared with cold-rolled sheets with flat surface. All the phenomena above show it is feasible to control the thermal properties of a material by a proper design of the dislocation texture.
The effects of severe plastic deformation and heat treatment on the transformation behavior of explosively welded duplex TiNi-TiNi shape memory alloys （SMAs） were investigated by differential scanning calorimeter （DSC） measurements. The explosively welded duplex TiNi-TiNi plate of 0.7 mm thickness was cold-rolled at room temperature to a 60% reduction in thickness and then annealed at different temperatures for different durations. The results showed that low temperature （623-723K） heat-treatment led to the crystallization of the amorphous region, and re-crystallization occurred in the specimens annealed at higher temperatures （over 873 K）. Research indicated that the change of martensitic transformation temperature is due to the change of internal stresses with increasing heat treatment temperature. The change of annealing time also led to a change in martensitic transformation temperature, which was associated with the precipitation and decomposition of Ti3Ni4 in TiNi-1.
